Monster Nilsen’s secret jail lover
Murderer’s letters moan of ‘ban on seeing gay friend’
Nilsen at court in 1983 Rambling letter from serial killer Scene of his horrific crimes
after he and other tenants complained to the landlord about the foul stench from the drains at their flats in Muswell Hill, North London.
A plumber found the pipes were full of human remains. Nilsen was jailed for life in 1983, with a recommendation he serve at least 25 years.
He was convicted of six counts of murder after dismembering several of his victims, most of them homeless young gay men.
His fling with Jimmy was in the 1980s. After being locked up, he boasted that he would not conform to prison rules and said serving in the Armed Forces was much rougher than his time in jail.
Nilsen, who joined the Army as a cook aged 16 and served for 11 years, wrote:
Killer Dennis Nilsen cutting meat in the Army “I am my own man and lead a life marginalised from official machinations.
“It was much rougher serving in the British Army in the 60s and early 70s.
“Imprisonment is a state of mind, not a physical thing.
“Standing up to the power and adversity of prison has greatly strengthened my soul.”
In 1998 he wrote: “I don’t remember that much about the outside world having for the past 15 years had little exposure to its influences.”
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